WKDNKNDAY, MAY IW, IIMM*.
GltAXTN l'.UW 1*A1EY CXH KIKH
l’AÛB SIX
REMEDY FOR TEACÜEÜ
SHORTAGE REVEALED
FOR COUNTY JUDGE
Each Community In Oregon
Shculd Know Instructors
of Children Today.
ARTHUR S. COUTAN l
A year’s travel over Josephine County v,ould not suffice for me to meet and confer
with the 2500 Registered Republican voters who live in the county.
Expense and time seem to prevent it anyway.
1 must content myself in writing this letter that you may know more about me.
1 am not long on promise,, but have bad abundance of experience in business and
business management, having been successful in nearly all of my undertaking, in varied
line,.
And the “way to judge the future is by the past."
Have held many civil positions of responsibility and know no criticism or claim of
my not doing my full duty.
Have always claimed strict adherence to the law as my guide in public matters,
hence should I be nominated and elected it would be my duty to see that every road dis
trict in the county gets its full allotment from the tax it pays into the county treasurery
Legally these funds cannot be diverted.
Have lived in the county nearly seven years and have conducted successfully the
Oregon Observer. In this time I have studiously observed the conditions as they exist
and have striven as best I could to remedy the imperfections found.
Am a taxpayer on several properties and can sympathize with those who are burden
ed with excessive tax rates. I shall guard the interests of others as carefully as I would
my own.
I was bom on the Western Reserve in Ohio, the most patriotic section of the nation.
My ancestry in America dates back more than three hundred years. I was the eldest of
five children, being only nine years old when the family lost the bread winner.
Have
had all the struggles and experiences one could have under such circumstances, [.earned
the printing trade in Michigan, working fifteen year, in the one office; later Jiecame own
er of two newspaper plants which I sold to come west for the climate.
If nominated, will dispose of the Observer plant by sale or lease, resign from the
county fair board and some other activities so that my whole time can be devoted to the
affair, of Josephine County.
Voting is no different from other business, voting is duty and the performance of
duty is required in order that American institutions may be perpetuated. You have the
choice, and if I am chosen 1 shall be glad to serve fearlessly, honestly, efficiently. But
your choice will be my choice under all circumstances.
Yours for good government.
ARTHUR S. COUTANT.
My number on the ballot is 70
Arthur S. Coûtant. An X mark after the 70
and before the name brings the realization.
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A B A R G A I N
GRANT SIX
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SCHOOLS ARE UÑARLE
TO GET INSTRUCTORS
Brunswick 'Tires
The Battery Shop
In asking the state of Oregon to vol*
favorsbl) (or (he two mill elementar.»
school lucisuiu, popularly known a*
(he Children'» Rights lllll. the teach
ora of the state of Oregon are uot ask
Ing for an Increase in »alary They
are merely working for a fair and
equal distribution of tares for the sup
port of these basic school», that tin
entire state will bo taxed and uot only
the organised school districts, as at
present Is the case
The shortage of of teachers In Ore
gon is growing so rapidly that thi
situation 1« alarming In the extreme
Last year too schools were clo.ed. and
in these 100 schools. 2S0 room» were
closed and clo»o to 4000 pupils won
unable to have the instruction that
rightly should have been theirs What
was the cause?
It was due »ntlrely to a short*«,
of teachers Why? Because the teach
erg are being underpaid and are lea»
tng the profession for better paid work
They have to do this Some day Ore
gon must come to the rescue of th*
teacher Now. It Is being asked to'
save the child, the voter of tomorrow i
Do wo want him educated? Sure
Only r ently In New York did tin ,
question of raising the teachers' sal
arles come up before the legislature '
and it
due lo a lick of sufficient |
Information as to the extent to whl*
they ah. uld be Increased, and th
ability ef communities to pay Inert',»
have led the legialatlve loader* to d
cldc to postpone final revision ot th
teache s' salary law until another
•don
The temporary readjustment cf ■a
arles will fix the irlumum rate «
the rural »ch o| teacher at >M50. whl'
in the larger country districts th
lowest paid eleruei. ary lea a* i wll
gel |9i>0. The minimum In elementar
school* in third class cities will b
>1,100 Instead of »,.•'1 as al present
and that in high school* >L250 Inal* i
of >»40 Second class cities must ralsi
>helr minimum salary of elementary
teachers from >800 to >1.2 >0. and tha
of hlkh school teacher* from Sl.Ooi
to >1.400.
in order to prevent New York Cl
draining the adjoining cities of t*ai
ers. Yonkers, Mount Veruoa, Whll
Plains, and New K > belle are to I’
required to pay within >550 of th<
rates In effect In New York City Fir
ineresses of >550 over the Marrh 1
rates are mandated upon Syracuse sc
of >404* on Buffalo and Roche»'.
The»« hlglior salaries will d niucli 1
make the teach ng service more s'
tractive.
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The New York City rates .»re to I
fixed by a committee now ui w> I
up' ¡1 the problem of il"'i rmliiiuk hov
the city's quota of the d'rect state tn'
of l1, mills >12.000,000- shall be.dH
tribute.) among more than 24.000 mcr
hers of tile supervising staff. Th
average Increase of 1500 would se.
»null tn comparison with the ther Ir
creases were it not for the fact the'
the governor last month signed a b
giving th* New York City teachers a
Increase on June 1 Six thousand al
hundred and three tear-in r« w ill rt
r.'iu. tn in
tn tn p' r o • ' ■
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than they received on Dec
I. Lil'
while 6.050 others of a total of 24.12
will have their imlarles lucre,sed Iron
50 to so per cent
Hut the mlnlmui
salary cn June 1 will be only >1.005
In redrafting the provisions of th
statewide salary !• II aiiectlng N
York City tlic J Int legislative comm,
t«e to » 1. cl, t •• task was assigned h
raised tin* minimum to >1.500 and he
so rev!.- I other i arles that th<c
grades of th« scr ce where the chic'
shortage of teach s exists »hall <, '
salaries that will attract and hold In
best teachers
In no other way cat
the standards of teaching be nialntaii
ed, not t'. say improved.
When the legislative committee r
ports next year whatever other grad-
of the service have not received due
ami proper consul) it ion can Im pro
vlded for in the general saiary increase
measure.
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Engraved «arda -Ceurler »Sie«
Superintendent 8paulding cf Clevelari
Board Decries Small Salaria».
Men teachers •are disappearing fro!
the school* of Oregon
Thirty year» ago there were as many
men a, women In elementary school*
Now the ration la four men to Sb
women.
Cleveland, Ohio, find« It Imposslbl
to secure men teacher» of manual <>i
physical
training for elernentarj
schools because of low salaries
These frets are presented to Clevo
land teacher« by Supt Frank E
Spaulding In an article being rllatrlbut
ed to them for Information In oonna*
tfon with their study of the salary
questionnaire recently sent out.
The remedy In Oregon is th» two-
mlll levy.
Significance is lent to the situation
by a recent resolution of the School
masters' club of Cincinnati deploring
the condition nationally and stating
"the influence of man la considered
necessary for th« proper education of
American youth."
The resolution asks the Nation*
Educational Association to bring be
tore the publie and Its school offi
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